Neuroscience

The faculty of the Department of Neuroscience have research programs in many areas of cellular and molecular neuroscience with emphasis on synapse neurobiology and the use of neurogenetics approaches. Faculty research interests are relevant for understanding neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, autism-spectrum disorders, depression, anxiety, epilepsy and insomnias. An interactive group of departmental faculty is interested in neuron-glia interactions as related to neurological disease.

The Department of Neuroscience coordinates neuroscience educational and research programs within the Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences and the Tufts University School of Medicine. Our faculty participate in the Synapse Neurobiology Graduate Training Program that is directed by Michele Jacob, PhD. The department hosts the Tufts Neuroscience Seminar Series and a student/postdoc presentation series during the academic year.

In addition to educational and research activities, faculty of the department supervise activities of the Tufts Center for Neuroscience Research (CNR), a center funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS). The CNR supports four core research facilities located within departmental space, that provide services to all research labs of the medical school and its affiliated hospitals.

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Center for Neuroscience Research

The CNR provides state-of-the-art approaches to contemporary problems in neuroscience

Tufts University

Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University are international leaders in innovative medical education and advanced research. The School of Medicine and the Sackler School are renowned for excellence in education in general medicine, biomedical sciences, special combined degree programs in business, health management, public health, bioengineering and international relations, as well as basic and clinical research at the cellular and molecular level.

Ranked among the top in the nation, the School of Medicine is affiliated with Tufts Medical Center, Maine Medical Center, Baystate Medical Center, and many other elite teaching hospitals and health care facilities. Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School undertake research that is consistently rated among the highest in the nation for its effect on the advancement of medical science.